15 Chinese Hole-in-the-Walls hiding around Metro Manila!

This list will (hopefully) leave you all craving for awesome Chinese food, whether it’s dim sum, noodles, rice toppings or Hunan spicy cuisine. In a city where there’s a never-ending wave of new restaurants, all of us surely have old-time favorites that we love going back to. That’s exactly what this list is.

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Known for hot and spicy dishes with deep colors and fresh aromas, A Bite of Hunan is an authentic restaurant in Circuit Makati that serves dishes from the mountainous Chinese region of their namesake. Try their Dongpo Braised Pork and Sizzling Fish.

Shantung is a casual dining Chinese restaurant along West Avenue that has been serving authentic Mandarin cuisine since 1958. They are well known for their Shantung Fried Crispy Chicken, Hot & Sour Soup and Steamed/Fried Pork Dumplings. Read our full feature here.

Tuen Mun Roasts is a HK-inspired eatery serving everyone’s favorite roasted items on rice. Feast over generous servings of barbecued pork, lechon macau, roast duck and soy chhicken with rice or noodles. Here’s an insider tip: Tuen Mun Roasts and Eat Fresh are run by the same owners and we read that you can order from Eat Fresh here. Also read: 15 Restaurant Finds in Banawe.

Le Ching Tea House is a Cantonese and dim sum place popular to residents around the Banawe area. It serves affordable Chinese specialties including various dim sum baskets, siopao, noodles, congee and rice toppings. Known only to a handful, this place’s most talked about items are the Steamed Spareribs rice, Chicken & Mushroom rice and Stewed Beef Brisket noodles, so don’t leave without trying all three!

Mey Lin has been around serving authentic Chinese cuisine since 1984. It is known for serving the best claypot dishes, pata tim and hand-pulled noodles in town. But not everyone knows about a secret dish that has been quite underrated over the course of its existence, the Squid with Special Sauce.

Located along Gilmore-Ortigas Ave., Mien San is a classic noodle house serving Taiwanese specialties since 1995. This is where locals of San Juan and New Manila area come to get their fix for Beef (with Tendon and Goto) noodles, Fried Siopao, Sate Chami, and Spicy Wanton.

Caution Hot is a Chinese restaurant specializing in spicy hot noodles. Diners get to customize their own bowls by choosing from a wide selection of noodles, toppings, broths and burn (or spice level). Also read: 16 Reasons to Visit Maginhawa.

Charlie Wanton Special is like a tiny out-of-place treasure from Binondo–awesome food, shady location. Similar to Ling Nam or Masuki noodle houses, Charlie also specializes in Wanton noodles, siopao and siomai, but offers many other dishes including rice toppings, congee and other Chinese favorites. Look for their Panda tarpaulin along Haig St. Also read: 18 Holes in the Wall in Mandaluyong.

Lam Tin Tea House may seem like your ordinary Chinese dim sum restaurant except that it’s not! The most famous item on its menu that sets them apart is the Noodle Feast–huge serving flat noodles served with wanton, beef brisket, chicken and goto.

Mr. Poon is one of Manila’s most classic Chinese restaurants, which became popular for being the ‘house of steamed fish since 1974’. They open as early as 6:30am to cater to early breakfast goers. Try their house specialties: steamed fish and special beef.

Sze-Chuan House has been serving authentic Sichuan feasts since the 1970s. Although Sichuan cuisine is reputable for its (over) use of chili and Sichuan pepper in its dishes, Sze-Chuan House is not all about spicy. Their bestsellers include: Hot & Sour Soup, Steamed Fish with Tauso Sauce, Fried Shrimp Roll, Sliced Beef Loin Boiled in Special Spicy Sauce and the Fried Imperial Bread.

From a little school joint along Masangkay, Manila, they have since grown to being one of the most visited restaurants in the Banawe area. Eat Fresh is famous for serving authentic HK street food such as dry noodles with sauces, street egg waffles, fragrant claypot rice variants, dimsum and other small eats on skewers.

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